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sara mclanahan

professor of sociology and public affairs, Princeton University
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The causal effects of father absence

S McLanahan, L Tach… - Annual review of sociology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The literature on father absence is frequently criticized for its use of cross-sectional data and
methods that fail to take account of possible omitted variable bias and reverse causality. We …

Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition

S McLanahan - Demography, 2004 - Springer
In this article, I argue that the trends associated with the second demographic transition are
following two trajectories and leading to greater disparities in children’s resources. Whereas …

Family structure and the reproduction of inequalities

S McLanahan, C Percheski - Annu. Rev. Sociol, 2008 - annualreviews.org
Over the past four decades, income inequality has increased and family structures have
diversified. We argue that family structure has become an important mechanism for the …

[BOOK][B] Growing up with a single parent: What hurts, what helps

S McLanahan, GD Sandefur - 2009 - books.google.com
Sara McLanahan spent a semester as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in
1989, where she began writing a draft of the book. The Ford Foundation, the Foundation for …

Family structure and child well-being: Economic resources vs. parental behaviors

E Thomson, TL Hanson, SS McLanahan - Social forces, 1994 - academic.oup.com
We used data from the National Survey of Families and Households to investigate economic
resources and parental behavior explanations for family structure effects on children. The …

Family structure, parental practices and high school completion

NM Astone, SS McLanahan - American sociological review, 1991 - JSTOR
Integrating ideas from child development with sociological models of educational attainment,
we examine the relationship between family structure--whether both parents are present in …

Partnership instability and child well‐being

C Osborne, S McLanahan - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We use data from three waves of the Fragile Families Study (N= 2,111) to examine the
prevalence and effects of mothers’ partnership changes between birth and age 3 on children’s …

Family structure transitions and maternal parenting stress

CE Cooper, SS McLanahan… - Journal of Marriage …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 4,176) are used to examine
family structure transitions and maternal parenting stress. Using multilevel modeling, we …

Mother-only families: Problems, prospects, and politics

S McLanahan, K Booth - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989 - JSTOR
This essay examines three aspects of mother-only families: their economic and social well-being,
their consequences for children, and their role in the politics of gender, race, and social …

Fragile families: Sample and design

…, JO Teitler, I Garfinkel, SS McLanahan - Children and Youth …, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper provides important background information on the Fragile Families and Child
Wellbeing Study, and is the first and only paper to provide detailed information on the research …